

The above screenshot shows that my EFI system partition (ESP) is on the 7th partition of my hard disk (/dev/sda7).

You can see the EFI system partition number, the partition table type (GPT), UUID of the EFI system partition and the boot loader file. You can also add -v option to show verbose information. The asterisk (*) means the boot entry is active. Each boot entry is identified by a boot number in hexadecimal. This command allows you to view the default boot entry (BootCurrent), boot order and all boot entries. In some Linux distributions like Debian, you need to run it with sudo privilege. You can install the efibootmgr command line utility with the following commands.ĭebian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint sudo apt install efibootmgrįedora, CentOS, RedHat sudo dnf install efibootmgrĪrch Linux/Manjaro sudo pacman -S efibootmgr 1 Displaying Current Settings It’s assumed that you have installed Linux in UEFI mode. This tutorial shows you how to use efibootmgr with 5 examples.

The Linux efibootmgr command line utility is very handy when it comes to managing UEFI boot menu.
